The Racek Decision (Daniel Racek v DP World Sydney - [2019] FWC 772), published on 8 February 2019, is a very important decision which looks at the intersect...

In my latest book, Paper Safe: The triumph of bureaucracy in safety management, I looked at the obligations of an employer to warn employees about obvious ha...

SafeWork NSW v Opcon Plumbing Pty Ltd; SafeWork NSW v Annous Keywords: Due Diligence; Company Officers I have written before about the prosecution of Company...

R v Kite [1996] 2 Cr. App. R.(S.) 295 The Kite case is slightly different from some of the decisions we have looked at in the Safety Case(s) series, in so fa...

Safe Work (NSW) v Action Concreting and Constructions Pty Ltd [2017] NSWDC 191 The Action Concreting case is not one I used in my recent book, Paper Safe, bu...

Harbour City Ferries Pty Ltd v Mr Christopher Toms [2014] FWCFB 6249 While the Harbour City Ferries case is not a prosecution under health and safety legisla...

Boland v BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Corporation Pty Ltd [2018] SAET 167 This BHP case is a sentencing decision, but it raises some interesting thoughts about p...

Safe Work NSW v Wollongong Glass P/L [2016] NSWDC 58 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; Safe Work Method Statement; Drugs and alcohol in the workplace; on-the...

DPP v Hungry Jacks, Visy & Veolia [2018] VCC 1454 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; Control; Contractor Safety Management The Hungry Jacks case is another c...

Moore v SD Tillett Memorials Pty Ltd [2002] SAIRC 47 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; documented procedures; one-off departure by an employee; verbal instru...

Hillman v Ferro Con (SA) Pty Ltd (in liquidation) and Anor [2013] SAIRC 22 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; Control; Contractor Safety Management; tick and ...

Silent Vector Pty Ltd v Shepherd & Anor [2003] WASCA 315 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; Control; Contractor Safety Management It is not my intention that ...

The Queen v A.C.R Roofing Pt Ltd [2004] VSCA 215 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; Control; Expertise; Contractor Safety Management; Engaged by a principal I...

As part of my ongoing research and writing, I have started a new series on my blog, Safety Case(s). Each day I will be posting a summary of a health and safe...

Kenneth Peter Stratton v Van Driel [1998] VSC 75 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; Control; Contractor Safety Management The Case On 15 September 1995, a roo...